Re: How to add, then implement additional hard disk space (VMWare Fusion 5.0.3)
OK, that makes sense: it essentially needs 100% elbow room to rebuild things. What was confusing was the idea of merely adding a few GB to allow for some additionaly programs to be installed and still...
View Articleshrink virtual hard disk (Mac OS X + VMware Fusion 5 + WinXP + Win7)
Hello there! First of all, I use the German version of VMware Fusion 5. So if you encounter any weird words I used, sorry for that but I couldn't find a way to contact the German support (if specific...
View ArticleHow to set IoMeter to troubleshoot storage
Hello,I am not sure if I am doing it right but would like to know your input.I have to set i/o meter with 128k Thanks for your help,
View ArticleHome Whitebox ESXi with FreeNAS handling local storage
I'm kind of new to ESXi, FreeNas,and really anything beyond home Windows support. Please forgive me for my level of knowledge, but I'm reading alot and trying to learn. This seems like a fairly large...
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Re: How to add, then implement additional hard disk space (VMWare Fusion 5.0.3)
If it was already a twoGbMaxExtentSparse type of disk you could have enlarged the disk as it would have just added the additional empty Extents however because it's monolithicSparse type disk you need...
View ArticleHA Restarted Which VM's?
I had an ESX host crash just now but I can't tell which machines were on it. It looks like HA restarted all VM's but I don't know which VM's.... I don't see any events in vcenter showing them being...
View ArticleRe: how to install workstation on ubuntu platform
louyo wrote: Although the download page refers to it as ".bundle", the actual download is the .txt file. It has always had .bundle as the extension when I've downloaded it so not sure why his would...
View ArticleRe: how to install workstation on ubuntu platform
9.0.1 and 9.0.2 have both been .txt here. See download image. Lou
View ArticleRe: shrink virtual hard disk (Mac OS X + VMware Fusion 5 + WinXP + Win7)
A virtual hard disk cannot be downsized once it is partitioned. This means you can only downsize it immediately after creating the Virtual Machine itself and before installing the Guest OS. Just...
View ArticleRe: shrink virtual hard disk (Mac OS X + VMware Fusion 5 + WinXP + Win7)
Oh, and one more thing: If I delete a virtual machine, what is going to happen to the disk space left for the VM? Can it be used by Mac OS right away? If you empty the Trash too then yes.
View ArticleRe: HA Restarted Which VM's?
Hi, VC task&events should certainly show the same.Go to VC>File Export>Export Events>Select the exact date&time at which issue occurred and collect the logs for System.Save it in a...
View ArticleRe: How to set IoMeter to troubleshoot storage
Hi, Please check >http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006821
View ArticleRe: how to install workstation on ubuntu platform
I just started the download of 9.0.2 and it has a .bundle extension just like every other Linux version download I've done. Something is not right for it to be downloading with a .txt extension....
View ArticleRe: How to add, then implement additional hard disk space (VMWare Fusion 5.0.3)
WoodyZ, I stripped away about 25GB and then converted the file structure to the 2GB blocks. That worked and it did consume about 100% of additional space in the conversion process. Then I added 9GB...
View ArticleRe: HA Restarted Which VM's?
Perfect. I see them. Thankfully only a few servers were running on it..Thanks.
View ArticleUpdate ESX using an Update Manager
hi How To use Update Manager from a vSphere client if the vCenter Server is installed as a guest on the same machine?It seems to be a problem with a maintenance mode.If the vCenter Server is running,...
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Script stopped with VM question in VC while detaching CD/DVD from VMs
Hi,I have a script to detach CD/DVD for all VMs running on the specified datastore and print the result if successful or not.My problem is for one of the VM, the script paused and I have the following...
View ArticleRe: shrink virtual hard disk (Mac OS X + VMware Fusion 5 + WinXP + Win7)
Thank you for your reply, WoodyZ!What do you mean by V2V? I really don't know much about emulating.So if I understood you right, it is possible to limit the virtual disk space before I install WinXP...
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